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over the loins. Toes separate, webbed, slightly 

 finned." 



Our figure is taken from one of Dr. Gray's 

 specimens in the British Museum, courteously 

 placed at our disposal for this purpose. 



Here terminate the Amphibia, as represented 

 in the British islands. It has already been ob- 

 served that some excellent erpetologists consider 

 the Amphibia in the light of a class distinct from 

 the Eeptilia. We are heretic enough to doubt 

 whether this distinction will long be maintained ; 

 and to us it appears that recent investigations 

 and discoveries tend more to the association than 

 to the dissociation of these two groups of rep- 

 tiles. The student will find in Dr. Griinther's 

 " Reptiles of British India " facts which we are 

 fain to believe support this view. This, however, 

 is no place for the discussion of such a question, 

 which is in itself of very little importance to the 

 readers for whom these pages have been written. 

 A toad remains still a toad, and an amphibious 

 animal, whether we choose to call it a Reptile or 

 a Batrachian. 



